The Penn's Grove record., 1887-04-30

There is a sunken barge IL the moutl
Of Raccoon creek.
One year ago Robert NJ. BLEW,
of Bridgeton purchased twenty pairs of
pigeons and since that time has sold
from the forty pigeons 105 and Il hall
pairs Of squads averaging As cents per
pair.
One thousand feet Of ocean drive and
board walk extensions to the westward
from Sea Breeze Hotel, Cape May, will
be finished in time for the seasons open
ing. The work will be protected by q
solid stone breakwater.
1t is now stated that the Mexican
treasure ship is a myth. The owner OF
Seven Mile Beach has put astOptO fur
Their digging by the'coast wreckers.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed in Camden by the Ridgway Park
Ferry Company. Jacob L. Ridgway,
G. W. Dohnert and Gonsalo Richard
son, of Philadelphia, and John |.
Bishop and Caleb S. Ridgway, Of COIL
umbus, N. j., are the ineorporators.
The authorized capital is 10000.
The Park Baths and the Atlantic
City Ocean Parlor, at Atlantic City
and the handsomest bathing establish
ment OIL the New jersey coast were
totally destroyed by fire ON Tuesday,
incurring a loss Of S25, 900. Insurance
$1,000.
The West Jersey Railroad will prob
ably not build its extension into Bridge
ton yet awhile, as the City Council
does not appear To be willing to grant
it what it wishes.
AT the Mount Holly Court Tuesday
William Agnew, Of PALMYRA, was put
on trial for the murder of his wife by
beating her with a chair during a drunk
Ell carousal i'll january last. The
crime was a particularly %atrociOus one
from the fact that after killing the wo-
man the murderer slept by the side of
the corpse OF ten nights. He was
| captured while attempting to flee FROM
the house, and made a statement adj
hitting his guilt, which he now denies.
| Constable Horner, who discovered the
crime and made the arrest, testified
| that Aguew had confessed his guilt to
him. DR.. Franklin Gaunt, of Bur
lington, testified as TO the post-morteni
| examination, and gave it rs his opinion
that death was caused by violence, the
result of blows on the head hy some
| blunt instrument. The trial Will be
| continued to-day. The trial al Bar
| clly Peak, For the murder Of his cous-
in, Mary C. Anderson has been put
down for May oath.
Dir. L. NJ. Green has laid out a beau
| tiful cemetery of twenty acres on a
high spot of land east Of Woodbury..
The Woodbury. Park Association, at
a recent meeting, appropriated $500 for
grading and draining the Park property
The following South Jersey appoint
ments were made by the A. NJ. E.
Annual Conference, which has just
closed at Trenton Fifth district-G.
NJ. Witten, Presiding Elder Camden,
G. NJ. Witten ; Woodbury., j. I. Rex
East Camden, F. f. Smith; Jordan
town, r. A. V. Henry Burlington. J,
w. Cooper; Snow Hill. G. G. Green
Mount Holly, John Whitaker. Sixth
district. II. Morgan, Presiding 81
der Salem, j. H. Mocgan Bridgeton,
A. Newton ; Springtown, G. Waters
Yorktown, R. II. Coleman Bushtown.
NJ. w. Watson; H~aleyville, Waymar
Pierce. Seventh district. II. Beau,
Presiding Elder; Melville, W. 4. Mer,
rell. Cape May, J. II, Beau; Gouldtown.
II p. Thomas.
The schooner Geo. S, Marts, built a
Dorchester in 1874, was blown up and
destroyed at sea- off Hatteras Mt about
twenty minutes of four o'clock in the
morning of the 10th inst, caused by
going into the hold with a light to adj
just some barrelsof oil that had become
shifted by the rough sea. Capt. D. NJ
Henderson and his men, except the
mate and II seaman who were in the
hold and lost, barely escaped in then
boat and we're picked mp. The Captain
had neither coat, hat or money. One
sailor was terribly burned about the
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